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...Aneyniev came on the stage, holding her baby in her arms and accompanied by her husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...
...Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried...
...follows: First call, 5.45 A. M. Reveille, 5.55 A. M. Assembly, 6.00 A. M. First mess, 6.30 A. M. Drill,--7.30, continued until 11.30 A. M. Second mess, 12.15 P. M. Drill, 1.30, continued until 4.30 P. M. Retreat, 5.30 P. M. Third mess, 6.30 P. M. Tattoo, 9.30 P. M. Call to quarters, 9.45 P. M. Taps, 10.00 P. M. Sundays: First call, 7.45 A. M. Assembly, 8.00 A. M. First mess, 8.30 A. M. Second mess...
...menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept up a tattoo on the bottom of the boat; the eyes became mere circles; the spots around the nose grew larger and more distinct, until they assumed definite figures, that seemed like the Roman numerals. The body was fading away. The flapping of the tail became louder and had a metallic ring. The goggling...
...know whom I mean - that friendly young man whose visits are as regular as the flow and ebb of the sea; that congenial soul who, on finding our oak sported, evinces his superior knowledge of college customs by treating us to the soul-soothing sound of the devil's tattoo beaten upon our door in a manner truly vigorous, giving vent at the same time to expressions of mistrust as to our being out, and whose incredulous phiz we finally see peering at us through the ventilator. In what a pleasant frame of mind do we then welcome him with...